Parliament calls humanists to give evidence on the “Big Society”

A parliamentary inquiry has called on the British Humanist Association (BHA) to give evidence on the government’s “Big Society” agenda. The BHA is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people, and it is the largest organisation in the UK campaigning for a secular state.BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson will give evidence in a session for parliament’s Public Administration Select Committee’s inquiry looking at the impact of the “Big Society” proposals from the humanist as well as religious perspectives. Other witnesses are the Rt Rev Tim Stevens, Bishop of Leicester and